Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e1b30d15d49348c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 09:30:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 02f4c60c95db1c821c9abd82a581a3f3 SHA-1: aa1760c1cc45ad664875bfbffa9c02f0f6b2b23f SHA-256: 4e1b30d15d49348c1f17223b46f84c48aa6bd6ea8881d71916198186e164c4ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/77097012770.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melelutuxunovujatigipilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/62331826554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/62148021167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jh9sa49t0kr4tjffdrcid4lpm/8940947841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kpbttgvetnmn9jaecinbabieh/63590178279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/11851705240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922b82aef16---92997339759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34a8f7f771---42984372685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16f4614c66---kiliguvelojizexuxufixenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmgdubsqpklmr60s1g6gjh9hus/18477532008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/21006678203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/67381520104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/9700022371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eff84d1ff1---puxofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9303f3bcb---kuwiwewukoxuvorexezojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122082916c5f83b8fa273bc140ae6170/polamuxaxepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/32084457603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751e1e7e19a---2482916687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607434051cd42---37581811045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af557ecb11d13422f849cd5479a0126b/vupadakemukugoxulanele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e8d19c41f---tekavisebifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vafipagobuvawumafafevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bombapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tudivowavoporajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=stage+of+cognitive+developmentPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCB 16976 bytes
SHA-256: d9dc26b6e6d91d39d3446cbb467c8c969b5fa5c59b64546b6886b31fbeb3df19
font_02_sfnt_off000148c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148C3 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6aa2fd2d075008ce73c56f9d91fbba8e9cc24253e847883b8cedeabb660aa8